Hi. My name is Richard.
Welcome to the Manufacturing Technology and Indust rial Design and Engineering
machine shop.
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I've tried a lot of programs at school,
and I think I've just been searching around to see what I like more.
And I'm a very hands on person. For me I wanted to learn just how to make things.
the ID program is going to be more focused on the design side of things as,
more of like product design, prototyping whereas the manufacturing classes
are going to be focused on the machining side of things, programing the machines,
It's more, I guess, shop based classes. They do a nice blend of incorporating
both Manufacturing and Industrial Design If we want to work as a machinist or
or we want to work as a designer.
it made sense for me to pursue both sides of it
as far as learning how to run the machines and designing products for the machines
to make. Here, I have this Golden Snitch that I modeled.
So basically you learn 3D modeling and So I originally
first learned, in Pasadena, but then I came down here to refine myself
Because I have a background as a graphic designer, but I want something different.
But at the same time, similar,
I haven't finished this one yet, but it's a it's an F1 helmet.
it's helping me a lot that I get to see
what the designs I make would actually be implemented and created here.
it's a really great place to be when you understand what a machinist does,
what an engineer does, and what a designer does,
as you can see over here, there's a lot of tools I could mess around.
there is a CNC machine in inside of the room.
This is a lathe. Yeah,
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Coming here is like opening a kid's toy box.
And every tool you get is a new way to make something.
You'll find machine shops in the industry that have a lot of machines.
But you're never going to see this many manual machines in another program.
and so much diversity within the machines themselves.
So we have
so many machines to train people on so that every student can be on a machine.
learning how to operate tools and use tools
correctly is going to open doors to be able
to make the really high end stuff because you learn the process
and then you're learning some of the materials.
and understand what's makeable and what's not.
You can't run a CNC machine
really without understanding how a manual mill works first.
once you start using these other machines, the,
the ideas, the fundamentals of it, come and play with that machine
because that one is all computer controlled.
So you really trust your computer to do what it's supposed
to do
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having the ability to say, oh,
"I know how to operate this or hey, I've, I've already made cabinets."
"I know how to use a table saw."
prior experiences working with,
woodworking tools
and 3D printing. Prior to coming here,
I kind of thought
that I knew what I was doing until I got here and realized that, wow,
the manufacturing world is much larger than I ever thought it was,
And we also have a bunch of other machines that I have not even use yet
really wonderful to to be able to,
you know, work with the giant
machine. And I at the beginning, I was even scared to,
like, press the buttons because it's, it's kind of scary,
we're teaching people fundamental skills is what we really focus on.
And then when they get into the higher end skills,
they really know what they're doing.
Yeah. I'm that's I'm not scared no more.
I think the foundational skills are going to transfer to whatever it is
that you want to go into.
you don't have to have a background in mathematics or physics.
Here, you get to start doing what you want right now.
How to run a mill, lathe,
drill press. You start from working in the in the woodshop, you know,
and starting off building a stool on in here.
This is our woodshop.
and then moving your
way from the woodshop to the to the manual lathes
to the manual mills. I always I just want to try everything honestly.
Like right now I'm also taking a welding classes.
I'm taking... I'm just trying to take more classes.
Just because it's first of all, it's cheap.
But also the professors here are really, really good professors.
Like, I actually like
the environment that I get here compared to when I was at a four year college.
Manufacturing program mostly happens at night.
And afternoons and nights.
It's set up for people who are working shifts at at jobs.
And our industrial design program is mostly in the day
and up into the afternoon for people who are learning and wanted to
go on to a four year school.
I've been in the SolidWorks
classes, 3D modeling, and I've done manual machining on the lathes and the mills.
And now I've learning how to do the CNC.
These are our CNC lathes.
And they're set up with tooling right now.
They've been making some parts
I think the students are working on making a vise right now.
you know, there's a wide gamut of things that you can do here,
whether it's you want to build cabinets or you want to go into aerospace,
you know, you can do both.
like, just bachelors and no knowledge, you can start as engineer 1 making
at least like 65 to $70,000.
for sure.
You're going to find a really good job.
It's going to be well paid going, I feel like this is it.
I know I'm interested in another program just for the skill of it,
but I think this is more of the career I want to take.
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